cREative team

• Composer - Emma O’Halloran

• Libretto - Naomi Louisa O’Connell

• Director - Annie Saunders

• Electronic Sound Design - Alex Dowling

Duration: 60 minutes

Commissioned by Opera Saratoga with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

22 & 27 June 2025 / Work-in-Progress Showing / Opera Saratoga Summer Festival / Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs, NY (USA)

about the piece

This opera-theater work for three singers, an actress, and electronic sound design by Alex Dowling reframes the structure of the Irish Catholic Mass to tell an intimate family story of three sisters and their mother.

A story born from personal experience, A Mass for Women in Bathrooms examines themes of infertility and reproductive rights, while reclaiming bodily autonomy for women in a historically violent space.